| 释义 | serve someone rightidiom informal
 If you say that something bad serves someone right, you mean that that person deserves it: (某人)罪有应得,(某人)活该
 "He hit me!" "It serves you right. You shouldn't have been so mean to him."“他打了我!”“活该。你不该对他那么不好。”
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Deserving and deserved
 birthright
 come
 comeuppance
 deserts
 deserve
 deserved
 deserving
 get your comeuppance
 get your just desertsidiom
 go
 had it coming (to you)idiom
 hard-earned
 just
 serve
 undeservedly
 undeserving
 undeservingly
 unmerited
 well deserved
 worthy
 
 
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